About the Neighborhood Council

What Is It?

The redevelopment that will transform our neighborhood is just beginning. Residents, business people, and city officials have been working together to plan a Neighborhood Council to influence this transformation.

This presentation provides an overview of the activities of the working group that brought the Neighborhood Council into being and the decisons made by its members.

Goals

Our goals include building community, empowering members of the community, minimizing displacement, promoting affordability, increasing economic opportunity, and stewarding the public realm and the built environment. Furthermore, the Union Square Neighborhood Council aspires to be representative of the demographics of the community in Union Square. Our ideal board comprises at least 50% women and at least 27% people of color, reflecting the make-up of our neighborhood. We recognize these goals are aspirational, but we do ask that all board members be committed to this inclusive principle and do their best to think creatively about how to realize it within the operation, efforts and initiatives of the USNC.